One button, Multiple actions

programming flash
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Hello Everyone-
Here’s my issue: I have a movie clip on my stage that acts like a presentation. I have a button below it that I want to control which ‘slide’ of the presentation the user sees. Right now when the user clicks the button it takes them to the next slide in the movie clip. I don’t know where to start to have it move on to slide 3 and so forth. So basically everytime the button is clicked it shows the next slide. The movie clip has the appropriate stops and I know which frames I need to activate…I just need help figuring out the Actionscript. [COLOR=blue]Do I need to setup a counter?[/COLOR] [COLOR=crimson]If so, how do I do that?[/COLOR]

Thanks for any help!

Erin the Lost :h:

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I don’t know what your setup is like, but from the way I take it I think you need a simple play command on your button to make the playhead continue to the next slide and stop there. I suppose your slides are all in one movieclip, which I’ll call slides_mc here.


yourbutton.onRelease = function(){
slides_mc.play();
}
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Alrighty, I found my answer all by myself (yeah!). But becuase I know that I am not the only Flash newbie out there that will have this question so I am going to let you know where to find the solution…

http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/toggle_flags.htm

Basically I just have one button that I want to do more than one thing with. When I was writing up my description to this question I made the mistake of throwing the word “slides” in to it. I really didn’t have slides, I actually just had one time line with different transitional points that I wanted to control.

If any newbies out there find Macromedia’s document confusing please feel free to contact me and I will share my experience with you.

Erin the Moderately Lost